“The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.” ReasonAbleStuffTeamPositionChairman Author:Leslie Moonves
“Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.” TryingDoeReasonUseHandsUniverseBeliefReligiousAtheismPositionEvidenceBuiltUltimatePhilosophicalRemainsStructureBelieverNeverthelessLackingPersuasionRespectableAgnosticismReligious BeliefDogmaticTrue BelieverHeathenUltimate TruthUnyieldingDemolish Book:Pieces of Eight Pa Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U.S. world position?” WorldReasonSeemsImaginePositionSourceAtmosphereShoppingImagine ThatDissatisfactionInterruptedInstabilitySaturation Author:Herbert Schiller
“Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.” MenRealReasonStagePositionHigherQuantityThronesSimplestSummitDiscontentWisestEminence Book:The fall Source: The fall
“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.” KnowsMenNeedsReasonWholeRealityChristianFormCoursesAcceptingTakenPositionAuthorityAreasAtheistDenyThinkerGreat Thinkers Author:Cornelius Van Til
“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.” WorldReasonWantedSpiritualPoliticalMoralConditionsPositionMaterialsIllnessObviousMedicalMental IllnessComponentsDomainImplicationsTheologicalDementiaAlzheimer Author:Margaret M. Lock
“I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.” PeopleReasonDecisionPositionSmartMy FriendsMy FamilyBad ThingsSmart Decisions Author:Derrick Rose
“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.” IfsReasonHandsSpiritFeltBornCommunitySocietyPositionDutySucceedDemocraticExcuseChiefsPocketsNo Excuses Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.” WorldMeanCountryReasonSecurityMilitaryPositionConsequenceConcernVery GoodIsraelSignificantNervousReason WhyIranRelativeDeniedHolocaustMissilesHezbollah Author:Barack Obama
“There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.” PeopleDifferentReasonPositionAuthorityDifferent ThingsRegulationDominationRules And Regulations Author:James Cromwell
“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.” PeopleThinkingWantLoveReasonPoliticalSportsDifficultPositionTrumpDegreesFindingsEvidenceOrganizationHarderGolfCandidatesTournamentsGolf TournamentsNon Political Author:Ari Fleischer
“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.” IfsI CanDifferentReasonFilmTurnsUnderstandingMy OwnCommonMoralPositionProjectsDeserveScoreSchedules Author:John Keltonic
“India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.” IfsReasonAgeCultureNumbersPositionBecomingIndiaPartners Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.” ReasonAbleGamesVoiceActingPositionTerribleVery GoodBridgesReason WhyGapsVoice Acting Author:Rhianna Pratchett
“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives” HeartMeanReasonPoliticalDesireVisionEconomyEconomicPositionPlanetsFutureOffersCooperationDestroyingSaneSustainable DevelopmentPolitical EconomyMeltdownsFruitful Life Author:Oliver James
“Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.” PeopleWorldReasonGovernmentGuyFoundMillionsNiceStreetsPositionTerribleWeaponsDollarsChinaSpendingVersionsBagsReally NiceThugGovernment SpendingMutantsPradaKnockoffs Author:Timothy Miller
“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.” YearsCountryReasonHouseWhiteClearInfluenceMiddleExamplePositionWesternIsraelEastDecadesAdministrationWhite HouseAllowingBrotherhoodMiddle EastMuslim Brotherhood Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld
“You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.” KnowsMenSelfReasonDemocracyTalentSelf EsteemPositionThreatEsteemSuspectsRepublicMediocrityCompetentInsignificanceJeopardize Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.” FirstsIdeasDifferentSelfReasonBigsLawGuyInterestingPositionWillingJudgingDisciplineFellowsWaveLawyerDevelopingGrandfatherVeteranHarvardSelf EducationBig Ideas Author:Charlie Munger
“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.” FirstsLooksSoulSelfReasonBlackRealizingWhiteStruggleDoubtIdentityPositionStudentsCollegeExpressionPrideEvidenceHatredMirrorsConfusionDamageNo ReasonExaminationIncompleteSelf HatredPathologyPsychBlack Pride Author:Barack Obama
“To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.” WayWantNeedsMindReasonFactsFormLawResultsSpecialPositionEvolutionCapableStandingUniversalExcellenceNo ReasonIrrationalLaws Of NatureAccountingInexplicableUniformityUniversal Laws Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.” ThinkingSaidReasonStoriesGuyPositionManagementGreenSellsInvestmentFishesManagersReason WhyFishingPurpleSalesmanLureIdiocyInvestment Management Author:Charlie Munger
“Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.” CountryReasonLeftRightsPositionCivilizationRootsLogicFellowsCriminalsInevitableIslamicCommunistAnarchyFanaticsWorldviewTreasonCountrymenAmericanism Author:Ann Coulter
“I know there is a lot of concern I know about plans that Iran might have to develop nuclear weapons which arises from positions that Iran took in the past when in fact it did not disclose things to the IAEA… because they were hiding something. I can understand that.” KnowsI CanReasonFactsMightPastPlansPositionWeaponsConcernNuclearAriseConclusionIranHidingNuclear WeaponsHiding Something Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.” ThinkingShouldChildrenHas BeensReasonBigsWantedMotherLevelsPositionReadyMomShould HaveFearfulFoxesShould Have BeenDisappointBeing A MotherGood Mom Author:Ainsley Earhardt
“In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].” SaidReasonWould BeViewsPositionSecretaryTelephonesCabinetsQualificationsNominations Author:Kevin Rudd